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Because of tax breaks and cash incentives by states and countries, and product placement review we really do NOT know how much a movie costs, despite what is listed. Or even what a movie really earns. We know the box office but TV/Cable/DVD/Streaming and merchandizing is a huge factor. Disney made 3 Billion dollars on Marvel licensing in 2015.
While the Marvel Universe has taken in 14 billion and the DC Universe has taken in 4 billion, the FINANCIAL people at Time/Warner were relatively happy, not ecstatic, but happy, with the returns of their first four movies.

I bet until now. The JLA movie will certainly make $500 million worldwide and maybe $200 domestically. This is a steep decline in revenue and viewers from Wonder Women, Man of Steel or B V S. Domestically, Wonder Woman, not under the Snyder influence, preformed the best in the US. Worldwide it did well, but did not beat B V S.

The Avengers movie did better than any of the individual Marvel super-heroes movies, it took in 1.5 Billion. This meant people wanted to see more of these heroes. DC’s decline shows that people have seen enough. Even of wonder Woman?

I am sure there are serious discussions going on right now at Time Warner about the future of the DC movie franchise. It’s not working and it’s not building. Marvel found success with less well known characters (Ant-Man and Dr. Strange). Will Aquaman take off? Today I do not think so. We all know that the DC are dark and serious, and Marvels are lighter and funnier. But I do think two things hurt the JLA: First, although we all know he is coming back, it was wrong to kill off Superman to begin with, but he was NOT part of the ads for JLA. I think that hurt. Second, Flash fans can get him free on TV. They should have used the Martian Manhunter or Green Lantern instead.